Ian started to cry. Squeezing his eyes shut, he swallowed the lump in his throat and murmured, “Babe, I love you…for the first time in my life, I feel whole. You are the part I was missing all these years. Now, we are one and it gives me so much joy. My love will be part of you as yours is part of me...you are my home, now and forever.”
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For their last night in the forest, Colton had planned a very special treat for his lover. They both dressed, and after sticking a packet of lube in his jeans, Colton took Ian’s hand, leading him up a very narrow path through the trees. It took an hour before they arrived at the place he had chosen.
Emerging from the darkness, Ian gasped at the full moon hanging low in the sky, bathing the outcropping of rocks with soft light. Looking around, he saw a large plaidblanket spread out with a plethora of pillows in all colors and shapes arranged on it. His mate led him to the blanket and helped him sit down.
Then Colton said, “When Jackson moved our pack to Steel’s home, we were finally free to go on full moon runs. Steel led us here on the first one. Later, I found out it was his favorite spot. But that night, I fell in love with it and vowed I would bring my mate here…sometime in the distant future or so I told myself. But the Fates knew we needed each other sooner than later and I owe them so much for that. So on our last night alone in the forest, I wanted to bring you here to show you the beauty of our universe and, hopefully, to create new life tonight.”
Lifting Ian’s hand to his lips, Colton kissed it, and continued, “I want our child to be conceived under these thousands of stars, under a full moon befitting our child’s wolf and under these tall trees reminding us and our pup of our gods who created such a perfect world. I want our wolves to join together tonight in love.”
Ian’s tears flowed freely—he nodded and smiled. “Me too, babe. Please give me your seed so I can give you a pup.”
Colton reached for his mate and pulled him down until they were lying among the many pillows. Tenderly, he unbuttoned Ian’s shirt and slowly removed it while kissing his mate’s nipples and licking his chest. Then, moving to Ian’s jeans, he kept up the slow torturous dance of removing them, all the while kissing and licking Ian’s body.
Once his mate was undressed, Colton stood and got himself ready for his mate. Joining Ian, he covered his mate’s beautiful body with his own, gently rubbing their cocks together. He moved slowly, wanting to etch this moment in their minds forever. His hands wereconstantly moving… rubbing… caressing… stroking Ian until the forest heard the cries of want coming from his mate. Colton was not in a hurry, wanting each touch to push Ian higher and higher into the star laden sky above.
Ian’s sounds of passion…of need…of desire echoed off the mountains until both of them were enveloped in a never-ending song of love. Colton continued stoking the fire burning in both of them, matching his need to his mate’s. And when he saw Ian start to fly, he drove his cock home…home where his heart lived and his soul breathed. And together they climbed to the stars…wanting each other, needing each other, one with each other as Colton’s seed filled Ian. And while they lay there among the stars, their wolves joined together under the full moon bringing a new life into their world.
Epilogue
A week later, Ian was sitting on Colton’s lap, looking at the computer screen, planning their trip to Scotland. They would leave as soon as Ian fulfilled his commitment to Oracle—three months as a doctor for Jackson and the pup. Oracle insisted Ian stay on even though father and pup were doing fine after Colton used the power given to him by Archangel Raphael to save Jackson.
They hadn’t decided what to do with Ian’s fortune but that would come later. In the meantime, Colton thought a trip to Ian’s birthplace would help put to rest some of the ghosts his mate had wrestled with during his childhood and as an adult. His brother fought Colton about the trip but in the end he relented when Ian and Colton agreed to a security detail to help protect the King of Scottish Wolves.
“I want to gothere,” Ian said, pointing to a spot on the screen.
“Any reason why?”
“I don’t know, it just calls to me.”
Colton wrote the name down on a pad, adding it to a list that had grown daily. “At this rate, we might have to stay longer,” he chuckled. Hearing his phone ring, he answered it while giving Ian a kiss.“Hello?”
“Colton, this is Mystia. Jimmy will be there in a second with a badly injured shifter. He’s using my portal.”
“What? Now? Who is this shifter? Steel isn’t going to be happy about having a stranger here with his new son. Have you cleared it with him?” Colton muted his phone and said to Ian, “We have incoming. Badly injured shifter. Don’t know more than that.”
“I’m on it,” Ian said, leaving his mate and rushing towards the area Colton had set up as an emergency room.
“Mystia, sorry, Ian is getting everything ready to treat the shifter. But you have to clear this with Jackson…you know that.”
“Oracle is on her way there now. Jimmy is entering the portal. Colton, you must save this man.”
Before Colton could respond, Jimmy was standing before him, carrying someone who was so badly beaten his face was unrecognizable. Taking the man from Jimmy, he rushed him into the emergency room where Ian was waiting.
“Lay him down here,” Ian ordered.
Colton gently set him down, alarmed when he heard no groan from the man. Stripping off the remnants of the man’s clothes, Colton and Ian examined the victim. Working tirelessly, they were finally able to stabilize their patient and moved him to the area set up for intensive care that Steel insisted on after Jackson’s close call. The shifter was in a deep coma and non-responsive. The victim of the most brutal beating Ian had ever seen, he was now on a ventilator and Ian was sure if it were removed, the shifter would die.
Colton was at the desk entering the information onto the man’s chart and checking to make sure all monitoring devices were working when Steel roared down the hallway.
“Where’s the shifter?”
“He’s unconscious and in the ICU. He isn’t a threat, Steel. The man has been beaten badly. Look for yourself,” Colton said, as he drew the curtain back, showing Steel what once had a face.
“Holy Fuck! Who did that?”
Mystia appeared and said, “You have seen him before Steel. He is the Silver Point Pack Enforcer who is on the recording I sent to your brother.”
